Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement cluster
Meenoughter, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Meenoughter
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.00092, -7.98370
- SMR number
- CO055-043----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as settlement cluster named Meenoughter. Three residential houses remain, one in ruins. Second is a T-shaped, 1-storey, structure of 4 bays with a corrugated iron roof and off-centre chimney toright; off-centre doorway to left. Third dwelling is a thatched 4-bay, 1-storey structure (long axis E-W); E side half-hipped, W side hipped; off-centre chimney to left; off-centre door to right. Several out houses also survive.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.